Archive for January, 2005
What Disneyland attraction are you?
Posted by PYRO in Randomness on 1/26/2005
Roger Rabbit’s Cartoon Spin: a wild ride through the back alleys of toontown! The only ride with a PG sense of humour in the G rated world of Disneyland, you are zany, wild, and a little bit of a loose screw. Energetic and colorful, you go at full speed, even though your taxi-car vehicles actually have four flat tires! Despite your older humor, you are a kid at heart and kids most relate to your cartoony world and like you the best. You’ve been known to make the adults a little queasy and a little bit dizzy. You leave your visitors dazed, a little confused, but more often, extremely amused. You take us to the places we’d never see in a ride featuring the straight-laced Mickey, but somehow you’re still all Disney.
What Disneyland attraction are you?
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California Hacker penetrates T-Mobile systems
I read an interesting story from SecurityFocus.
Apparently a hacker broke in to T-Mobile’s system and had access to information such as a user’s name, SSN, DOB, username/password, voicemail password, and more. It appears the hacker has had access to the systems for at least a year.
The hacker was able to obtain communications from a secret service operative who had been using a “sidekick” in the field. Also obtained were candid photos from many celebrities mobile devices. Celebrities included Demi Moore, Ashton Kutcher, Nicole Richie, and Paris Hilton.
The hacker was able to infiltrate the system because “There was flaw in the way the cell phone servers were set up” according to one of his friends.
The secret service and T-mobile are trying to keep this “hush-hush” right now. Despite California’s anti-identity theft law “SB1386,” the company is obliged to notify any California customers of a security breach in which their personally identifiable information is “reasonably believed to have been” compromised. That notification must be made in “the most expedient time possible and without unreasonable delay,” but may be postponed if a law enforcement agency determines that the disclosure would compromise an investigation.
I guess the good news is that:
- I don’t use T-mobile
- They weren’t able to get any credit card information
- They were caught
Just goes to show that your information is never really “safe.” Someone is always going to find another way to hack a system. Especially if it is a Winblowz system. 🙂
Images of Jesus
Posted by PYRO in Randomness on 1/12/2005
Ha! ha! ha!
I saw on the news tonight a woman from the San Diego area swears she saw the image of jesus in a tortilla she was cooking on the stove. Of course now she is was trying to sell the tortilla on ebay. It appears it has since been removed from ebay. However, there is no shortage of “jesus image” items on ebay. Here is a few of the better ones:
Items include:
- Image of Jesus in door
- In a dental x-ray
- Driftwood
- Tie Dyed T-Shirt
- Natural Stone
- Burnt Tree
- Fireplace Soot
- Plank of Wood
- Petrified Wood
- And My Favorite: The Etch A Sketch
I included the Etch A Sketch one because I thought it was so hilarious, and I am sure it will be gone soon.
Back in action!
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Plugged In
The New York Times published an interesting article about plugging in at public places, such as restaurants and cafes.
I don’t know anyone who would do something like that. 🙂
I have included the text in the rest of the entry for those too lazy to sign up for a nytimes account.